The Governor General Cleaned My Shoes

Jeanette Trefle

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781398449114
• Edition: 0

"Even before I was born, I was trying to do things my own way. I made life difficult for my mother, Jess, who was confined to bed for the last trimester of her pregnancy. I had disappointed my father, Geoff, by insisting that I be born a day earlier than his birthday, and I had mercifully waylaid their plans to call me Elizabeth."So begins my story that has me watching rockets going up at the Woomera Rocket Range, beating the boys at marbles (and winning the prized milky white marble with coloured orange waves), nearly being run over in a toilet, swimming with a snake on my way to inspect a very dead horse, setting tongues wagging in Canberra in a Commonwealth car and eliminating plastic bananas from Australia's entire eastern seaboard. And yes, the Governor General did clean my shoes.

Table of contents

• The Governor General Cleaned My Shoes
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgement
• Apology
• Chapter 1 Even Before the Beginning
• Chapter 2 Richmond
• Chapter 3 Woomera
• Chapter 4 Still at Woomera
• Chapter 5 Cronulla
• Chapter 6 Mt Druitt
• Chapter 7 Mt Druitt—A Lost World
• Chapter 8 Rooty Hill and RHHS
• Chapter 9 Penang
• Chapter 10 Seven Hills
• Chapter 11 Butterworth
• Chapter 12 Rooty Hill—A Final Take
• Chapter 13 Butterworth—A Final Take
• Chapter 14 Singapore
• Chapter 15 Camperdown
• Chapter 16 Mt Druitt—A Final Take
• Chapter 17 Canberra
• Chapter 18 Darwin
• Chapter 19 Melbourne
• Chapter 20 Williamtown
• Chapter 21 Maryborough
• Chapter 22 Tiaro
• Chapter 23 Maryborough Revisited
• Chapter 24 Armidale
• Chapter 25 Brisbane
• Chapter 26 Island Life
• Chapter 27 Epilogue